Thanks Scissors, I know it does I guess its my way of learning how calibre works. I wanted to parse the links myself from the webpage so that I can do some testing for duplicates etc (when I combine multiple rss feeds) and manually identify which ones I want to include. My latest version for the RTE website is:

Spoiler:

#The following recipe extracts the text from all the RSS articles that are linked. The photos on the RTE website do not lend themselves to being included in a recipe

#Each article group will be made up of articles, set up the articles based on the URLS that we have already gotten
def RTE_parse_section(self, link):
current_articles = []
for file in link:
current_articles.append({'title': file[0], 'url': file[1], 'description':'', 'date':file[2]})
return current_articles